There is no way that JJP scrapped GNR for an image issue or due to political winds. A company that is struggling for sales and just sent a lot of time, resource and money developing a pin is not going to just scrap it. If JJP is not going to release GNR this fall, in my opinion, it has more to do about capturing more sales by releasing GNR at the right time rather than for political or image reasons.

So here is my prediction on what is going to happen.
Stern announces LZ in the next week
JJP announces TS sometime in the near future
JJP announces GNR sometime in 2021 after LZ sales start to drop.

Thoughts...

They were losing money at $9,000. The question is what price makes sense? Let just say $9000 is break even. At$12,000 you are dropping $3000 to the bottom line. So they sell another 100 and make $300,000 while delaying your next release. Would that really make any sense? Probably not. They only way that potc gets made this fall is due to a delay of a planned release like GNR and they have a window to build.